A Boiled Egg Can Be Cooked at 100 $\degree$ C in Exactly 5 Minutes

question 63

Multiple Choice

A boiled egg can be cooked at 100.0 $\degree$ C in exactly 5 minutes. At an altitude of around 2000 m where the boiling point of water is 93.0 $\degree$ C, it takes exactly 7.5 minutes to cook the egg to the same amount. What is the activation energy for the reaction involved when an egg is boiled?

• A) 0.5 kJ/mol
• B) 4.5 kJ/mol
• C) 7.9 kJ/mol
• D) 66 kJ/mol
• E) >100 kJ/mol

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